Example sentences of "[num ord] [noun sg] have [been] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A second influence has been the developing interest in the differences in later life experience between men and women . |
| 2 | A second theme has been a particular criticism of the Treasury and of its economic policies ; in particular that too much emphasis has been placed on the balance of payments or prevention of inflation , while the need for economic growth was neglected . |
| 3 | The second operation has been a complete success . ’ |
| 4 | If , he argues , the misery of large numbers of the agricultural and manufacturing proletariats at the end of the eighteenth century had been the general condition of the labouring population throughout the century , then industrialisation could not have taken place for it depended on " the home sales of articles of everyday life to a section of the labour force which was neither very poor nor very rich " but which wielded an effective purchasing power in the face of many difficulties . |
| 5 | My first assessment had been the right one . |
| 6 | ‘ To have his daughter run away from home in the first place had been a bitter blow . |
| 7 | Unfortunately , whether the contract drawn up in the first place has been a correct one or not , I 'm not sure . |
| 8 | ‘ Playing in the first team has been a big step up after the Academy and the reserves . |
| 9 | Scott 's first letter had been an appalling error , and it would seem sufficient reason why Donaldson should suggest reversing the decision to award him the Gold Medal , but Scott , when drafting his Recollections in later years , looked for further motives behind Donaldson 's action as he could not ‘ reconcile it with the character and generosity which Donaldson has usually evinced ’ . |
| 10 | His first feature had been a Western , The Left-Handed Gun ( 1958 ) , in which Paul Newman played a crazy mixed-up Billy the Kid with Method mannerisms . |
| 11 | The growth of baseball ‘ rowdyism ’ in the late-nineteenth century has been an inverse function of diminishing female attendance at the game ( Guttmann , 1986:114–15 ) . |
| 12 | Medical Officer for Brighton and later to the Local Government Board , where he championed statistical inquiries into infant mortality , Newsholme felt the evangelical revival of the late nineteenth century to have been a potent factor in the social hygiene movement . |
| 13 | Last night had been a cruel joke , she decided , watching the windswept trees and fields of placid cows flash past the train window , without seeing them . |
| 14 | Last night had been a glorious voyage of discovery to a new land , revealing wonders never dreamt of . |
| 15 | Last night had been a new one . |
| 16 | ‘ The last week has been a total nightmare . |
| 17 | This last year has been a tumultuous one for the Dame . |
| 18 | Iraqis have quickly reconciled themselves to military defeat , but the real shock of last year has been the gradual realization that defeat has brought poverty . |